Access to the Internic Blocked

John Hawkinson jhawk at bbnplanet.com
Thu Aug 22 05:52:45 UTC 1996


> >On itself, LSRR is a godsend to hackers (i can think of about
> >a dozen of very nasty attacks using general LSRR).  The only
> >useful application for it is traceroute.
> >
> >Why don't router vendors provide an option to turn it
> >off for everything but ICMP ECHO?
> 
> Personally I find this an excellent suggestion.

So now I need to hack my traceroute to send ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTS instead
of high-port udp packets?

Oh well, I guess we can put this right next to the patches to have
traceroute send TCP SYNs to get through stupid firewalls.

--jhawk





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